{"id":141886,"date":"2014-11-12T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=141886"},"modified":"2014-11-12T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:26:31","slug":"scotland-yard-searching-bodleian-library-dickens-dossier-alleged-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/scotland-yard-searching-bodleian-library-dickens-dossier-alleged-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Yard searching Bodleian Library for Dickens Dossier on alleged child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p>Scotland Yard is carrying out a search of the Barbara Castle archives at the University of Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Library to try and locate a copy of the \u2018Dickens Dossier\u2019, the missing file containing allegations of organised child abuse by politicians and other prominent figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent\">\n<div class=\"body \">\n<p>The Met is working in conjunction with archivists at the library to sift through more than 850 boxes of documents relating to the life and career of the former Labour cabinet minister and MP for Blackburn, ranging from the 1930s, when she was first elected as a London councillor, until her death in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the investigation told the Independent that \u201cpreliminary searches\u201d had already been carried out but that it would take several weeks to complete the search of the archives. Among the material are the former Employment Secretary\u2019s dairies, political correspondence and ministerial papers from her time both in Westminster and Brussels, where she represented Greater Manchester as MEP from 1979 until 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The source said: \u201cThe archivists have been working in conjunction with Scotland Yard concerning the preliminary searches. The dossier is not in the obvious locations where one might expect to find it and there\u2019s a doubt as to whether it is in there but the search continues. It should take quite a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/scotland-yard-searching-bodleian-library-for-dickens-dossier-on-alleged-child-sex-abuse-9857200.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland Yard is carrying out a search of the Barbara Castle archives at the University of Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Library to try and locate a copy of the \u2018Dickens Dossier\u2019, the missing file containing allegations of organised child abuse by politicians and other prominent figures. The Met is working in conjunction with archivists at the library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}